Celebrating the Past, Present and Future: 2015

Viral dress photo divides us: Was it blue and black? Or gold and white? Or is something just wrong with our eyes?

Adele's "25" sells more than 3 million copies in a week.

Jurassic World was released on June 12, 2015 in over 60 countries. After a record-breaking opening weekend where it grossed $500 million worldwide, Jurassic World generated a total of $1.6 billion in box office revenue, standing as the fourth-highest-grossing film of all time without inflation adjustment, as well as the second-highest-grossing film of 2015and the highest in the franchise.

2015 Birthday Tags - A new set of birthday tags is here and you’ll love the variety of styles included in this set. 2015 Birthday Tags is perfect for all types of birthday cards from masculine to feminine, adults to kids, to teens and so much more! The beauty of these tags is that they coordinate with the Limitless Layers: 2 1/4” Oval Die Collection, which you may already have in your stash! Create your own birthday cards and gift tags with ease using the new 2015 Birthday Tags set!

Dawn says, "Birthday tags are always a good thing to have in stamp form. Whether you create actual gift tags with them or use them on cards, they offer lots of options for your crafting dollar! I loved designing these to coordinate with other stamp sets that I've designed over the years. It just makes these tags even more versatile when you can pair them with coordinating sets you may have in your stash!"

With the new Brushed Blooms set you don’t have to be an artist to create beautiful artwork with a hand-painted or watercolor look! Let Brushed Blooms do all the work for you! Stamp the flowers and leaves with their two-step brushstroke layers to create realistic shading, or combine this set with your favorite technique to really bring it to life! Use the blooms with the large stem to create a pretty pre-arranged bouquet, or use the blooms with the individual leaves to create your own custom floral accents and backgrounds.

Laurie says, "I have yet to see a Papertrey floral set that I don’t absolutely love! As much as I love all of them, Brushed Blooms is at the top of my favorites list! Add in the coordinating die set, and you have a set that can stand the test of time!"

You've Been Framed: Hexagon - The You’ve Been Framed collection is the perfect basic to add to your stamp collection! The images in this set coordinate with the You’ve Been Framed: Hexagon Die Collection. Use the large label and coordinating triangle images to create multi-color frames for your sentiments. The elements in this set are also designed to coordinate with any of the Keep It Simple sentiment sets. The large label image is also ideal for creating tags!

Baker's Dozen is a collection of thirteen cupcake images, one for each month of the year plus a versatile extra! These little cakes can be used alone in the accompanying frame, or you can put several together in a pretty arrangement. Many of them feature small elements that are seasonally appropriate for their respective months, making it fun and easy to customize projects for recipients and the seasons. Pair the images in Baker’s Dozen with the Birthday Classics series for even more possibilities!

Wanda says, "This stamp set is pure perfection for making birthday cards! Who doesn't love a cupcake? I enjoy coloring these gorgeous images with my Copic Markers and it's so fun to put the pretty cupcakes on the matching cake stand. This is one of my all time favorite Papertrey Ink sets. "

Lexi says, " The year 2015 brought another handful of fun Pieces of Confetti stamp sets, most notably Superhero, a follow up to Zappy Birthday which had been released in January, right before the anniversary celebration. These sets together are the most fun! And who says they’re just for superhero cards? With Mardi Gras gaining speed around here, i decided to create Mardi Gras masks instead. Warning: It’s Party Time!"

-Do you already own any of the five sets that were highlighted today? Time to dust them off and make an all new project using it!

-Don't own any of today's showcased sets? Draw inspiration from any of the projects highlighted in todays' post and adapt a Papertrey set that you already own.

-Share your new project with us in the Inlinkz list below and you will have a chance to win a $25 gift certificate! Only one project entry per person please.

–For an alternate/additional way to win, leave us a comment letting us know what your favorite 2015 Papertrey stamp set is and why. It can be one of the sets shown today, or you can check out the "Stamps by Release" section of our store HERE. We will randomly select a winner from the comments for an additional $25 gift certificate.

-You have until 7am ET, February 21st to add your project and/or comment. Winners will be selected that morning and posted on a special "Celebrating the Past, Present & Future: Winners" post the next morning, 7am ET, February 22nd. We can't wait to see your projects!

Author Nichole Heady

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So many wonderful sets were released this year that it’s hard to choose but if I had to I would say my favorite is Bitty Bouquets. I love the small scale of the flowers and the variety of images. This set gets lots of love.

One of my most used sets is Good Times, it’s so awesome! Also loved Hooray with it’s fun streamers, Christmas Cheer, and the beautiful Guiding Light set! The Enclosed: Apple is so fun for teachers at the end of the year, and can’t forget sweet Petite Places!

Bitty Bouquets, the Petite Places series, and the Quilted series for sure! Pretty much anything designed by Betsy. 😀 I don’t have any of the featured sets, but three of them have been on my wish list since they were released.

I do have the Twig Wreath set and love the delicate look of it. I would have called it my 2015 fave until I realized the Quilted series was released that year. I have all 4 and use them a lot as I can always count on a card with warmth and charm. Swoosh is another set I use all the time. Oh, and Southwestern Style. Love these and I’m going to stop looking because I have a good selection of products from 2015!

Lots to love in 2015! If I have to pick favourites, I would say Fresh Floral Wrap-Ups for everyday and Treetops Glisten (though I don’t own it yet) for Christmas. And Guiding Lights was just added to my wishlist. 🙂

So much I love from this year..favorite ones..all the Petite Places sets and Brushed Blooms..on my wishlist is still Twig Wreath..each time one or the other is sold out..but will def buy it..when die and stamp are there when I order!

Looking through the year, I had many favorites! I loved the Quilted Series and the Tucked In Series. Stamp sets included Winter Woods and Guiding Lights! I’m going to say Twig Wreath as my favorite. I bought it a few months after the release, and now I wonder how I lived without it! I pull it out often, and it is a for sure favorite!

If I could buy just one set from 2015 it would be the Twig Wreath. I love the delicate look and the fact that it can be used all year round. I don’t often buy accompanying dies but I would make an exception for this set.

I love, love my Birthday Cheer stamp set. I bought that when I realized that I needed more “just words” stamps to go with the rest of my collection! They look good paired with other stamps or alone on over a simple background!

Now we are into the more recent years when I became a Papertrey Ink customer! My very first set was Big Hugs (Dec. 2014). During 2015, I added several new PTI stamps and dies to my growing collection. Twig Wreath is one of my very favorite sets. I just love its simple, rustic look! I use it so often, all year long. ♡

Gosh I thought I had a lot of PTI stamps, then you show me so many more with each highlighted year. The twig wreath is one I don’t own, gonna have to order it this time (hope it’s in stock). I don’t remember ever seeing the Baker’s Dozen set and it’s adorable.
Love ’em all!

What a wonderful year with lots of Great stamp sets. I loved all of the tucked in just because I am always looking for that perfect sentiment to finish off my cards and those ones always fit .Beautiful Butterflies Layers. Just because I am a sucker for butterflies and i can never have enough stamp sets with butterflies. Then I really loved the Zappy Birthday stamp set. Perfect all year round for any boy or girl and for that perfect little sentiment to go into a speech bubble.!!!! Just absolutely perfect!!

I love the petite places sets and one day, hopefully, I will own at least one of those. It was also tempting to choose the Scripted stamp set as my favorite 2015 set. I just bought my first stamp set from PTI during the sale … Beautiful Brushstrokes. And I think that the Scripted set would go nicely with the BB set. However, the one set that I have just fallen in love with and is at the top of my wishlist is Choose Joy. I love the simple, yet straightforward message of the sentiments. Beautiful font and alignment of each stamp.

So many sets to love from 2015. Love, love, love the Tucked In series and the Holiday sets were amazing. And then there’s Winter Woods, Stacked Statements, Plaid Builder, Graceful Greetings and so many more!

This year had many wonderful sets and series. Petite Places, Quilts and the Mini Markets. I think Petite Places: Happy Camper, comes out on top, for me. This is so fun, only one more year to go, oh dear!

I’m lucky to count five of the six featured sets in my collection, so it’s wonderful to revisit the range of creative possibilities. Of the featured sets Baker’s Dozen is a favorite. There were a number of collections introduced in 2015 that were must haves – Moments Inked, the Quilted Season series and the incomparable Petite Places and companion Scene It sets. Other favorites include Swoosh and Bitty Bouquet. There were a few novelty sets that are still on my wishlist: Secret Agent and Cablegram. Hard to believe we’re through year 9 already!

Twig Wreath is a favorite for 2015. Love that you can make it folksy or contemporary depending on the variety of embellishments. Baker’s Dozen has been on my Wish List and just moved up a few notches after seeing all the sweet samples today :-p

Looking over 2015 I realized that was a low budget year for me as there are so many sets I don’t have and want. I love the Brushed Blooms, Baker’s Dozen and Vintage Linens among others. I do have Swoosh and that has been fun to play with.

i think 2015 has way too many sets to pick just one. loved zappy birthday since i’m always looking for good boy sets. sentiment splits and swoosh sentiments are great general sentiment sets. lunchbox love is another favorite – love sentiments that raise our kids up!

It has been great revisiting some of the older stamp sets. I have several favorites from 2015 — Bitty Bouquets, Craft Brew, and Quilted Summer. I have made many cards using these sets. The craft brew set is awesome. In 2015 my son opened a craft beer and wine tasting store so the timing of this set was perfect and I have used it many times! I also love the wine tag!!

Spruce and Sprigs is one of my all-time favorites. There are also lots of great sentiment sets, too, like Graceful Greetings, Swoosh, Scribbled Sentiments and a whole lot more. Those are ones I own, but I’ve got a whole lot more on my wish list.

This was a WONDERFUL YEAR of PTI products & there are SO MANY that stuck out to me! BUUUUT, the ones I simply fell in love with were, the Petite Places!!!!! SO ADORABLE & just DIFFERENT from anything out there! I do have my favorites of these, but I’ll be honest, I LOOOOVE THEM ALL!!!! 😉

I don’t have any of the featured sets today, but I do have a few from 2015. Plaid builder, confetti toss, many of the keep it simple sentiments, and – my 2015 favorite – winter woods! All of them thoughtfully designed and easy to work with. Thank you, PTI!

The Swoosh set is a fave, love the flowing design of the sentiments. I really like the fun streamers in the Hooray set. The flowers are so pretty in Vintage Linens and I like that there are solid and outline images in this set.

I have to say the continuation of the Keep it Simple sentiments was great and my favorite set that I purchased in 2015 was Brushed Off. I have Baker’s Dozen on my wish list. So far through all of the past years I have only owned two of the featured sets; I apparently have different tastes than the majority.

Baker’s Dozen, and Choose Joy are my two favorites from 2015. There are others, but I had to narrow it down, right? 😉 I love stamped images that I can color, and cupcakes…need I say more? 😉 I love the sentiments in Choose Joy.

My favorite set from 2015 is Graceful Greetings. There are a few sets I love from this year that are on my wish list, but after that killer sale, they will have to sit there a little while longer. (Thank you for the killer sale!!)

2015 was a bonus year for amazing stamp sets! I’ve purchased three and still have many on my wish list 🙁 The Garden Gild dies and stamps are my favorite! Such lovely wedding cards can be created with this set!

My favorite sets from 2015 are Twig Wreath and Painted Petals. I just can’t believe I don’t have Twig Wreath in my stash – it seems so versatile, and it is so beautiful. I have to rectify that with my next order. :0)
Karen

I think I would choose Craft Brew as my favorite 2015 set (though Winter Birds was a very, very close 2nd – we need more birds!!). I like Craft Brew as most of the men in my life drink beer so making cards for them is pretty easy.

I do own a few of the sets highlighted today and in addition I would add some other favorites. The Secret Agent Stamp set is a really fun one both to use and for the recipient to receive. I had so much fun also with the Petite Places series and the Quilted series. Also on my list would be Guiding Lights and Winter Woods. So much variety offered with first class DT inspiration!

Oh my goodness, now it is REALLY hard for me to choose a favorite! After MUCH deliberation today, I narrowed it down to Brushed Blooms. But the Graceful Greetings sentiment set is a very, very close second. I just cannot believe all the fabulously gorgeous inspiration this week! Wow!

I have several sets of the Petite Places series and am working on getting them all! Everyone is blown away by the things I have made with them. They give me so much joy while using them! I recently purchased Bitty Bouquets and wonder why I didn’t get it sooner!! I also have and love In The Bag and Christmas Tree Change Up!. 2015 was a great year! Thank you, Papertrey!

The Petite Places sets came out in 2015 and I have every set – I was/am addicted! but I have to say I’ve only made a few so far – which has inspired me to get them out and make all those wonderful little Petite places!!

I have 3 of the 5 sets showcased today, and of those my favorite is Brushed Blooms, especially when the colors used are very close to one another. I also love You’ve Been Framed, but don’t use it nearly enough!

So many lovely sets were released in 2015 that I am completely confused. I like almost all of them! If I had to choose one, it would be the Twig Wreath. There are many wreath stamps available. I love this one because it is so easy to dress up or down. The design possibilities are endless and I think it will work well withe many other sets too. Of course the inspiration cards are fabulous!

There are so many of my favorite stamp sets that were released in 2015. If I had to narrow it down, the best I could do is to say the Quilted Series are my favorite stamps and dies. I love quilts and the warm and comfy vibe they give off, so when I saw these on Pinterest, I had to investigate. I really found Papertrey Ink, became a customer and the rest is history!!

My favorite stamp set for 2015 is the Quilted: Spring set. There’s something so charming about traditional quilt patterns, and it’s easy to change the look by varying the paper from nostalgic to contemporary.

My favorite for 2015 is hands down Choose Joy. It was sold out every time I tried to order and I’m so excited to finally have it (just came last week). Others sets I loved, though, are Brushed Blooms and Petite Places: Nativity.

There were so many lovely sets from 2015 but Pumpkin Patch has to be an all time favorite. I had to refrain from pulling it out too early in 2016 but I could honestly design with those darling pumpkins everyday!

The Hexagon version of You’ve been Framed is the only one I don’t have, and I think I’ll have to rectify that! I’ve used the Diamond so many times, usually as a background for my folded “tea bag” medallions. I love that it gives me an opportunity to use some of my patterned paper stash.

Only one favorite???? Sorry … I just can’t pick one. So, I will pick a bunch. It is a toss up between the Vintage Linens, Bibliophile, and Phrases and Praises. And this doesn’t include Betsy’s kits (All Throught the House and Nostalgic Notions). Love Papertrey and the great products and inspiration you regularly put up!

So many favorites in 2015! And among them, a sentiment filled set, called, Phrases and Praises. I wish you’d do more like it! That set is timeless. Not to mention well used and loved. Thank you always bringing us the best!

There were so many sets that I loved from 2015! But the one that gets the most use is Craft Brew…. it’s one of the few masculine stamps sets I have so it’s a go-to set for the cards I make for make friend and coworkers.

2015 had some absolutely fantastic sets released throughout the year. Baker’s Dozen is definitely amongst my all time favorite sets, but Brushed Blooms is certainly another all time favorite. (And I am so excited that my card was used for the flashback! Thanks so much for making my day… week… month…!) Make It Market Wee Folk is also among my all-time favorites. That set is just perfect.

I wish we could have picked our top 10 or even top 20 from this year. But if it has to be one Brushed Blooms. It is so simple yet so versatile and looks so different depending on the ink used. Just love it.

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